Journalism

Exploring Pathway: Journalism

The Journalism pathway provides experiences in data journalism and storytelling that will equip you to produce reporting that holds institutions accountable.

Pathway designations don't appear on your transcript, but they do offer ways to organize your electives and requirements.

Selected COMM Courses

• 104W Reporting, Writing, and Understanding the News
• 116 Journalism Law
• 120W The Rise of Digital Culture
• 125 Perspectives on American Journalism
• 142W Media Economics
• 143W Communication Policy and Regulation
• 151 The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech and Press
• 152 Constitutional Law
• 152A The Law of Democracy
• 153 Political Campaigning in the Age of the Internet
• 153B Free Speech, Democracy and the Internet
• 154 Politics of Algorithms
• 157 Information Control in Authoritarian Regimes
• 158 Censorship and Propaganda
• 176 Advanced Digital Media
• 177B Big Local Journalism
• 177C Health and Science Journalism
• 177D Narrative Journalism
• 177E Specialized Writing and Reporting: Telling True Stories
• 177I Becoming a Watchdog
• 177P Programming in Journalism
• 177SW Sports Journalism
• 177T Building News Applications
• 177Y Foreign Correspondence
• 280 Virtual Reality Journalism in the Public Sphere 

Research Opportunities

• Stanford Computational Journalism Lab
• Stanford Open Policing Project
• Peninsula Press

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